東北タイ農家の経済分析

Abstract

The objective of study is to investigate the farm households economy in Northeast Thailand taking part in partnerships of farming. There are three types of the partnership; complete partnership, partial partnership in which the partners work together and partial one of land lease type. Farm households' income taking part in partnerships of farming are increased because of partnerships, so that these households' surplus are much. The household economy consists of two sectors; the subsistence and monetary sectors. The former means those economic activities which render goods and services primarily for home consumption, and the latter for the outside market. The subsistence sector includes production of rice and other food crops for home consumption, and raising of water buffaloes; and the monetary sector includes production of cash crops in uplands and vegetable gardens, animal husbandry other than buffaloes, and off-farm jobs. Partnerships in farming are apt to be organized in the subsistence sector and play the inportant role of getting much income of the sector in farm households.